The Witcher series (Netflix)

The biggest grip about the show is that they arent following/adapting the books either though, they've made an insane amount of changes to the characters, screwed with timelines etc (now that sounds familiar doesn't it). Its exactly another case of trash tier screenwriters thinking they know best and messing with the source material.
 
C Kent said:
The biggest grip about the show is that they arent following/adapting the books either though, they've made an insane amount of changes to the characters, screwed with timelines etc (now that sounds familiar doesn't it). Its exactly another case of trash tier screenwriters thinking they know best and messing with the source material.
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The books would be rubbish as a straight adaptation. Honestly, I think they should have deviated more: the monster-of-the-week stuff worked, it's once they tried to make it all about the diplomatic issues of characters we don't care about it went off the rails.
 
arknor said:
most of the seasons were garbage, everyone knows it.

Even season 1 was kinda meh...


They decided to try and make the side characters as or more important than Geralt
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It went downhill with each season unfortunately.

They tried to make it all about the more female and diverse characters rather than Gerralt. Don't blame Henry Cavil for leaving. Crazy as he pretty much nailed the character of Gerralt.
 
Mr Jack said:
The books would be rubbish as a straight adaptation. Honestly, I think they should have deviated more: the monster-of-the-week stuff worked, it's once they tried to make it all about the diplomatic issues of characters we don't care about it went off the rails.
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Well yes, the focus of the show should have been the guy that people were tuning in for once they decided they weren't going to be faithful to the books.
 
The subset of people who watch any series, that have read the books, is always going to be minute, such that staying "faithful" to the books is only an issue for a tiny percentage of the viewing audience.
 
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tangey said:
The subset of people who watch any series, that have read the books, is always going to be minute
such that staying "faithful" to the books is only an issue for a tiny percentage of the viewing audience.
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15 to 20 million copies of the witcher books have been sold and 75 million plus copies of the games, that's a huge potential audience baked in from the jump.

Then again we keep hearing the same thing when these fantasy ip's fail to follow the established law.
 
C Kent said:
15 to 20 million copies of the witcher books have been sold and 75 million plus copies of the games, that's a huge potential audience baked in from the jump.

Then again we keep hearing the same thing when these fantasy ip's fail to follow the established law.
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There is legislation that covers this ? :)
 
C Kent said:
15 to 20 million copies of the witcher books have been sold and 75 million plus copies of the games, that's a huge potential audience baked in from the jump.

Then again we keep hearing the same thing when these fantasy ip's fail to follow the established law.
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the games aren't cannon. there was always going to have to be deviation from the books in order to make a tv show. that said, while i've watched the first couple of series i packed it in. it looked to me like they sploodged all their budget on Cavill as everything else just looked pants (imo)
 
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